Digimon.EXE

By Wolf O'Donnell

WARNING! May contain Alternative Universe situations and out-of-character experiences. Upon reading this, you hereby agree that you forfeit all your rights to sue me and that I cannot be held liable for any psychological or physical damage caused by the fact that I use British English spelling and that this fanfic contains graphic acts of a heterosexual and homosexual nature (not applicable to FanFiction.net version), extreme violence and use of swear words. Digimon is copyrighted by Bandai and Toei Animation Ltd. Wolf O'Donnell is copyrighted by Nintendo Ltd, although that might have nothing to do with the fanfic. Constructive criticism is very welcome.

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Session 6: Muteki na Bataashi

One of the Stingmon copies merely disappeared and Stingmon returned to the blue area.
"Ah, I forgot to use one Advance," he chuckled. "DigiModify- RowGrab activate!" His area increased by one row. "Now, shall I wait for my Operator's Advances to arrive or shall I finish you off right now?" he wondered.
Growlmon now only have one row to stand on. The rest of them had been taken by Stingmon. He dreaded the use of another RowGrab, which would end up turning the tiles on either side of him blue and hurt him at the same time. This wasn't how he wanted it to happen.
"I won't lose to you," he told Stingmon.
"I beg to differ!" roared Stingmon, as he rushed to the edge of his blue area. He lashed out at Growlmon, only for the Digimon to step out of the way. He floated left, Growlmon stepped right. He floated right, Growlmon stepped left back to the middle. "Hold still and take your deletion like a real Digimon!"
"Come on, where are those Advances?" wondered Growlmon.
"Stop stalling," said Ichijouji. "Tell your Digimon to give up so I can win this battle already!"
"The battle's not over yet," retorted Takato. "Just you wait until Growlmon receives his Advances. He'll kick your Stingmon's butt!"
"Oh yeah? I'd like to see that!"
The Advances finally arrived.
"You would, huh?" asked Growlmon with a smile on his scaly face. "DigiModify- Area Revolve activate!" he announced, activating the Advance.
If Stingmon's face had the capacity for showing emotion, it would have showed horror. The Area Revolve Advance reversed the layout of the Duelling Area. He pulled back, but it was too late. Spheres of energy rose up from each of the stolen tiles and the stolen tiles turned back to red. Each sphere of energy curved towards Stingmon and flew through the Digimon, flinging the normal-type insect Digimon back to his back row. The two front rows of Stingmon's blue area suddenly turned red, leaving him with only the back row.
"DigiModify, Giga Heal activate!" announced Growlmon. His entire body was bathed in a healing light and he felt most of his wounds disappear and his strength return. Growlmon ran forwards towards Stingmon's only row and slashed at his opponent with his sharp claws.

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Ichijouji cried out in anger.
"I don't believe that this is happening!" he screamed.
A smile spread across Takato's face, as he held his D-Scanner, which was connected to Ichijouji's by a small cable.
"You bad guys really do like to avoid believing in the truth," commented Takato slyly. He checked his D-Scanner. The battle was going smoothly. "So, you ready to give up yet?"
"Never!" replied Ichijouji. His honour was at stake. If he couldn't beat Takato in a Duel, then he would be the laughing stock of the entire Syndicate. Honour was very important amongst the Syndicates. If a Duel couldn't be won by fair means, then that Syndicate member would lose his honour. "You're going to lose, I'm going to make sure of that!" he growled angrily, as he pressed a few buttons on his D-Scanner.

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"Downloading 90% complete," announced Kabuterimon. He still stood on the rectangular terminal that represented the CPU of the computer that maintained the power generators of the Orbital Space Ring. "Downloading 95% complete," he told his Operator.
Rapidmon suddenly appeared right behind Kabuterimon.
"Oh yeah?" he exclaimed. "Well, let me delete you 100%!"
The electricity-type insect Digimon turned round and saw the Adult-level Digimon behind him. The Adolescent-level Digimon smiled.
"Say, aren't you Rapidmon of the Devas?" he asked the Digimon. "You are, aren't you? Huh. I've heard quite a lot of things about you."
"Really? What have you heard?" asked Rapidmon.
"I've heard that you're quite tough," replied the electric-type insect Digimon. "However, I doubt that you can beat me."
Rapidmon frowned underneath his green armour.
"Is that true?" he asked Kabuterimon rhetorically. "Well, we'll see about that. How's about we have a DigiDuel to sort this out?"
For a while, Kabuterimon didn't respond. He was waiting for word from his Operator.
"Go ahead," stated Izumi. "Wipe the digital floor with his butt."
A light shone down from above, bathing both Digimon. A Duelling Area of three by six tiles appeared around them. Rapidmon, the challenger, got the red tiles. Kabuterimon, the opponent, got the blue tiles. Neither Digimon was allowed or physically able to step out of the Duelling Area. The same rules to Growlmon's Duel with Stingmon applied to this DigiDuelling Match.
Rapidmon waited for Jenrya to send him a couple of Advances. They arrived soon enough.
"You ready?" asked Rapidmon.
"I don't need any pitiful Advances," was Kabuterimon's reply.
"Well, it's your loss," commented Rapidmon before he fired several rockets straight towards his opponent. They smashed into Kabuterimon, wounding the Digimon.
"Electro Shocker!" Kabuterimon fired a powerful ball of electricity at his opponent, but Rapidmon merely flew around it.
Rapidmon fired a few more missiles towards his opponent. One of them missed, as Kabuterimon dodged them skilfully.
"Here, take some more!" he cried, firing even more missiles at Kabuterimon. Each one curved through the air, smashing into Kabuterimon's area, some smashing into the electric-type insect Digimon. "And eat this!" he shouted, firing some more missiles at his opponent.
"What's this?" exclaimed Jenrya. "Kabuterimon keeps healing himself!"
"That's right, Deva," laughed Koushiro. "I've modified Kabuterimon so he's more like Elecmon. Whenever there's a supply of electricity around that isn't from his D-Scanner, he can use it to replenish his health. Now finish that Digimon off, Kabuterimon!"

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"No, I won't let you do that!" cried Jenrya, as he left his D-Scanner. He rushed over and reached out for a lever.
Izumi realised what Jenrya was up to and rushed over to stop him.
"No, don't you dare!" he screamed at the blue-haired Deva, grabbing Jenrya's arm. "If you kill the power, our Digimon will be stuck in a void! That void will drain our D-Scanners of power, until there's none at all and our Digimon get deleted! That void'll put a time limit to our battle!"
"Hey, I can handle the heat," stated Jenrya. "Can you?" He struggled against Izumi, trying his best to pull the lever back and turn of all the power.

"Are you okay, Dr. Lee?" asked Alice, as she helped Ruki untie Jenrya's father.
Dr. Lee slipped his hands out of the rope and stood up, rubbing his sore wrists.
"I'm fine, thank you," he replied. "Where's Jenrya?" he asked them curiously.
"He's at the main computer," replied Ryo, as he peered out of the doorway. "If we hurry, we can help him defeat the Dragon Syndicate."
"The Dragon Syndicate isn't behind this," Dr. Lee told Ryo. "It's Hypnos. They plan to hold this entire place to ransom." He walked over to the door of the closet and opened it a little bit more, peering out. He ducked back in. "Maybe Hypnos is running out of money," he suggested.
That was when the emergency lights cut out completely.

"Huh? What's going on?" exclaimed Ichijouji, as he looked around him. He saw that the lights had cut out. Had the back-up generator been switched off too? "What is that Hypnos fool doing?" he wondered out loud.
Takato's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets upon hearing Ichijouji's comment.
"Hypnos?" he exclaimed in disbelief. "So, you're in cahoots with Hypnos? Well, I guess that means I'll have to delete your Digimon quickly and arrest you."
"Over my Digimon's deleted data!" retorted Ichijouji.

There was a smile on Jenrya's face. In their struggle, they had managed to break off the lever. The power was now off for good, until someone came to fix the lever, at least.
"Now, let's say we Duel fairly, shall we?" he asked Izumi.
"We were Duelling fairly, kid," growled Izumi angrily, as he advanced towards Jenrya. "You think you've hindered my Digimon? Well, think again. Kabuterimon can still delete your Digimon and once he's down with your Digimon, it'll be my turn to get rid of you."
Jenrya's smile widened.
"You can talk big, but can you duel?" he taunted Izumi.

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"Okay, Rapidmon, it's time to finish this!" called out Jenrya.
The Digimon nodded in acknowledgement.
"Roger," he agreed. "DigiModify- MetalGarurumon's Metal Wolf Claw activate!" He lowered the cannons on the end of his hands and fired. MetalGarurumon's powerful attack came shooting out of his cannons instead of missiles and headed straight towards Kabuterimon.
The electric-type insect Digimon couldn't get out of the way quick enough. He was hit by the attack and suffered double the normal damage.
"DigiModify- Electric Field activate!" he announced, as he raised his scrawny arms into the air.
In each of the corner tiles of Rapidmon's area appeared what could best be described as a miniature Tesla coil. Each one sparkled, shooting out electricity from one coil to the other. The electricity leapt from one to another randomly, but none travelling diagonally through the middle of Rapidmon's area.
Kabuterimon laughed. This was going to be interesting. He flew upwards and then launched several Electro Shocker attacks against his opponent.
Rapidmon leapt backwards from the middle panel, just as a bolt of electricity travelled from the back-left coil to the back-right coil. He leapt straight into the bolt of electricity electrocuting himself, which was what he would have done if he had stayed put.
"Careful, Rapidmon!" called out Jenrya. "I'm sending you some more Advances!"
"They won't be able to help your Digimon now," stated Izumi with a gleeful chuckle. "Kabuterimon, finish that Digimon off!"
Kabuterimon crossed all of his arms, charging up a powerful sphere of electricty in front of him. He flew back and let go, sending the Electro Shocker flying straight towards the paralysed Rapidmon.
"DigiModify- WarGreymon's Shield activate!"
A large shield suddenly appeared in front of Rapidmon, blocking the electrical attack. That was when Rapidmon regained the use of this limbs. He leapt away from the Tesla coils and fired his missiles randomly into the air. A few curved into his area and smashed into the Tesla coils, destroying them, and a few others curved straight into Kabuterimon's area.
Beating his insectoid wings, Kabuterimon took flight and flew over into Rapidmon's red area. The rules stated that he couldn't step into Rapidmon's area, but didn't say anything about flying into it.
"Take this!" he roared, lowering his head and smashing his exoskeleton-protected head against the armoured Adult-level Digimon.

Close quarter combat was what was in order. Growlmon ducked under Stingmon's flurry of fists, as they battled at the front row of their areas. They were both so low on health that the slightest mistake would make one the loser and the other the victor. Growlmon swung his tail as soon as he ducked underneath Stingmon's attack. The normal-type insect Digimon leapt out of the way and flew back towards Growlmon, the spike on his arm extended.
"Come on, Stingmon, you can do better than that!" shouted Ichijouji.
"Growlmon, I know you can do it!" cheered Takato. "I have faith in you, pal!"
Takato's Digimon didn't need the encouragement. He was already stoked with the adrenaline rushing through his veins. There was no stopping him from coming out on top.
"I won't let you down, Takato," he announced, before he slammed his claws into Stingmon and deleted his opponent.
Since they fought in a Duelling Area, Stingmon wasn't truly deleted. He was 'sent to the recycling bin', as most Operators put it. The possiblity of undeleting Stingmon was very real. All Ichijouji had to do was to go into the recycling bin in his D-Scanner and retrieve Stingmon.EXE.

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"Rapidmon, are you okay?" asked Jenrya.
"I'm fine," came the weak reply from the blue-haired Deva's D-Scanner. The lack of electricty was draining the D-Scanner, weakening Rapidmon and Jenrya knew it.
Jenrya looked up from his phone-like device and at the sneering smile on Izumi's face.
"You're going to pay for that," he told Koushiro. "DigiModify- Exploder activate!" He watched the stats, as Rapidmon activated the Exploder advance, which caused damaging explosions all over enemy area. A smile spread across his face. "Looks like the duel's mine," stated Jenrya smugly.
"No, I couldn't have been defeated," whined Koushiro pitifully. "It's just not possible." A snarl spread across his face, as he detached his D-Scanner from the computer. "Well, the joke's on you," he chuckled. "Everything we've stolen has already been sent to Hypnos. It won't be long before the Super Digimon is created and then you can kiss your world goodbye! Hypnos will control the Earth Sphere!"
"Not if we can help it."
"Huh?" Koushiro turned round and saw a fist hurtle straight towards his face, before he blacked out and fell to the floor unconscious.
"Dad!" exclaimed Jenrya, as he unplugged his D-Scanner. "You're okay!"
A smile was on Dr. Lee's face, as Jenrya rushed up to his arms.
"Yeah, I'm fine, Jenrya," he told his son, "thanks to your friends." He looked behind and smiled. Ruki, Alice, Ryo, they were the best of friends. "Say, where's Takato?"

"Hope your Duelling skills get better," taunted Growlmon from Takato's D-Scanner, as the Officials led Ichijouji and the other Syndicate criminals away.
Takato laughed.
"Yeah," he agreed. "Way to go, Growlmon. You were brilliant!"
If Takato could have seen it, he would have seen Growlmon go red, or at least redder than usual.
"It was nothing, Takato," he said modestly. "I have you to thank for those Advances you sent me. That was some brilliant strategy you laid out for me."
"It was nothing," said Takato modestly.

The Hypnos Leader growled angrily, as he looked at the statistics. Two of his agents had been defeated.
"These Devas are getting to be quite annoying," stated the scientist angrily, brushing a hand through his pure white hair. "I've never met such insolent youngsters before." He reached out with a gloved hand and pressed a button, removing all the data from his screen and replacing it with new data. "Now let's see what we have here," he murmured. "Fire Program, Electricity Program, Force Field, Dark Program... one hundred data packets... Wood Program, Earth Program... We're still missing two programs; Mechanical and Water!"
"Don't you worry, sir," said a young feminine voice from behind the Hypnos Leader. "We will get those programs for you."
The scientist turned round to look at the two agents behind him.
"Yes, but you two are both far too young," he told them. "This new Operation requires us to send Agents down to the Earth."
"That's the point, however, Dr. Yamaki, sir," pointed out the feminine voice. "No one would suspect us youths to be involved in such an intense and dangerous operation."
The old man started to smooth down his white moustache with a white, gloved hand, as he thought about the situation. A sly smile spread across his face.
"You are very right, indeed," he agreed with a nod of his head. "Very well, I'll send the both of you down to Earth."
"Thank you, sir," thanked the other youth, a green-haired teenager with glasses.
"Lee, I will get my revenge on you yet," chuckled Yamaki evilly, as he rubbed his gloved hands. "I will delete all of your precious work! Delete it all!" He burst out into maniacal laughter, one that echoed all around him within the laboratory.

To be continued...